GoogleIsStillFiguringOutHowToCompeteAgainstTheiPhone

Once again, Google has come up with a plan to compete against the iPhone and counter Samsung’s growing power in the Android ecosystem.
According to The Information, Google is discontinuing its Nexus program for something more bold:

The expensive effort involves dumping the four-year-old Google Nexus phone brand in favor of a new program called Silver, under which manufacturers and wireless carriers will effectively be paid to produce and sell high-end devices that closely adhere to Google specifications, according to four people briefed on the project. The requirements sharply limit the number of non-Google apps that can be pre-installed on devices, or mandate that phone owners be able to uninstall them.